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Esmeralda County NV ghost towns, August 2011
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Columbus NV, once a large mining town, then a large ghost town, now just a couple shacks.
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Some holdouts must have kept these things cobbled together with any available materials.
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This back building has walls made out of wooden boxes subtituting as bricks. Probably had decent insulation but no structural stability.
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Collapsed pit mines are everywhere.
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And old bones. Hmm.
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Shack number 2.
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Adobe, wood, metal, etc.
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In the attic a huge raptor nest. That explains all the bones.
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Took on a dare to spend the night at the Clown Motel in Tonopah. The place was nearly sold out. That night the lot was full of gold mine drillers' trucks. With the price of gold at $1700 per oz there is a boom going on in these parts.
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